Medical Devices

While new and improved medical devices can assist users in their recovery from serious injury, surgical intervention, and illness, dangerous or defective devices cause additional physical injury, disability and death.

Medical device manufacturers and distributors have substantial financial resources that allow them access to the best lawyers money can buy. One individual of limited means and experience needs a team of attorneys like Watts Guerra LLP. We have a team of 23 experienced trial lawyers and a medical doctor on staff, so you can trust that our evaluation of your case will be made with knowledge most law firms cannot provide. You can trust that your case will be personally handled by several of the best product liability lawyers in the world.

Medical Device Mass Tort Lawsuits

Medical device injuries tend to affect multiple people in the same way. Therefore, lawsuits against device manufacturers are often handled in a type of lawsuit called a "mass tort".

A mass tort happens multiple cases are brought together in a single court and evidence is shared between the cases. Mass torts are often confused with class action lawsuits, but they are actually very different. In class actions, a large number of plaintiffs are all given the same judgment; in mass torts each individual case is valued.

Experienced Medical Device Mass Tort Attorneys

Our firm has successfully pursued claims against some of the largest device manufacturers in the world. In many cases, we have led the way in aggressively pursuing the manufacturers of dangerous medical devices. For example, founding partner Mikal Watts litigated and won one of the first Sulzer hip trials, when he represented Naomi Bonorden, Helen Rupp and Lillian Sallinger, who received an award from Sulzer Medica. The Sulzer hip trial was won when Mr. Watts proved that defective hip implants led to painful extraction and revision surgeries.

As a national leader in plaintiffs’ personal injury trial law, Watts Guerra LLP has taken on the manufacturers of defective medical devices, surgical implants and other dangerous and defective products. We have obtained some of the largest and most well known results in American legal history for our clients. From our offices throughout Texas, we serve hundreds of thousands of clients nationwide.

If you were injured, or a loved one died as a result of a dangerous and defective medical device, our personal injury trial attorneys can help you seek the financial compensation you deserve. Contact Watts Guerra LLP today by completing the form to your right, by emailing info@themasstortslawyers.com, or by calling us at 1(800)796-9605.

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Mikal C. Watts

Mikal C. Watts is one of the most successful pharmaceutical lawyers in the country. He has handled many mass torts, including Ortho-Evra, Vioxx, Fen Phen, Rezulin, Zyprexa, and Sulzer hip implants. Mr. Watts leads a team of successful trial lawyers who handle pharmaceutical product liability cases across the country.

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Mikal Watts is the attorney responsible for the content of this website. Watts Guerra LLP has offices in Austin and San Antonio, Texas. The firm's corporate headquarters and principal office are in San Antonio, Texas. Mikal C. Watts, Francisco Guerra IV, and Jose G. Gonzalez, Jr. are Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specializations. Michael J. Murray is Board Certified in Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Unless otherwise indicated, attorneys are not board certified.